Return flash filename minus the file extension

Lon Hosford sent me the following code which returns the name
of the running
flash file minus the '.swf' extension. It was working great
until I tried to
use it when the flash file was run from a path that had a .
(dot) in the
name of one of the folders in the path to the flash file. I
guess it uses
the dot to find where to cut of the extension from the
path/filename. It
seems to find the first dot in the path/filename. I would
like it to find
the last dot in the pathfilename. Can anybody help me with
this?
xmlFileName= _url.split("/").pop().split(".").shift()
trace(xmlFileName)
Thanks
Jim...

Try lastIndexOf , you should get the solution. Refer to
actionscript directory for the syntax

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